The man behind Nick Saban and now Dabo Swinney

Pretty cool.

It's easy to forget the "men behind the curtain" that make big programs run (from corporations, to football programs to the federal governments). These do-it-all guys, unsung heroes who never get their names in the paper are the grease that make the gears turn.

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Thad Turnipseed. What a name.

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Has a 1992 national championship ring.

11 years at Alabama, where he started as director of capital projects by designing and overseeing over $200 million in athletic projects. Some of these projects included both of the two endzone expansions and a $40 million in improvement to the Mal Moore football facility.

Hated to lose him.

Don't tell anybody

I met Thad a few times in college - he was roommates with one of my husband's pledge brothers.

I'm old too.